Comparison of PMP-driven probable maximum floods with flood magnitudes due to increasingly urbanized catchment: The case of American River Watershed

Earth Interactions

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1-15

  Yigzaw, Wondmagegn ^a   Hossain, Faisal ^a   Kalyanapu, Alfred ^a  

^a Tennessee Technological University   (United States)

Author keywords

Dams; Imperviousness; Land use and land cover; Probable maximum flood; Probable maximum precipitation; Urbanization

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DAMS; FLOODS; LAND USE; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RESERVOIRS (WATER); WATERSHEDS;

IMPERVIOUSNESS; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; PROBABLE MAXIMUM FLOODS; PROBABLE MAXIMUM PRECIPITATION; URBANIZATION;

FLOOD CONTROL;

CATCHMENT; CLIMATE EFFECT; DAM; FLOOD; HYDROLOGY; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; MESOSCALE METEOROLOGY; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RAINFALL; URBANIZATION; WATERSHED;

AMERICAN RIVER; CALIFORNIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84882582901     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 10873562     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2012EI000497.1     Document Type: Article

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